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Final location is Miami-Dade County, not Homestead or Leisure City[edit]

Hi guys. I have been confused about various sources talking about Homestead and about census designations, and then someone had changed this article to place Coral Castle in Leisure City which is even more contrary to all general published articles on the subject. I looked it up on Google Maps, where you can see the icon for Coral Castle appearing within the outline of Leisure City. I know some historical locations can be quasi-rural, so I emailed the museum staff at the address listed on coralcastle.com and she very kindly and immediately replied,

Good afternoon. Technically, Coral Castle is in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. However, if a guest is traveling to Coral Castle, it is recommend to use in their GPS system “33033” as the zip code, therefore, the city needs to be Homestead. Otherwise, the GPS system will not locate Coral Castle. Leisure City is an overlay (census-generated) which in the reality of the plat location is not Leisure City. It is in Miami-Dade County. There you have it in a nut shell."

I looked up the address on the county's public property records site where you can see that the property address and mailing address are each in "Miami, FL" and not "Homestead" or "Leisure City", which when combined with the general proximity awareness of Homestead and Leisure City, lets the observer deduce that it's obviously actually county property. And the past references to "Homestead" are typical rural shorthand meaning "the closest city of the day is Homestead a stone's throw away" and it's today's GPS shorthand for convenience. So I don't have an exact source to cut through misconceptions, but I synthesized the prose in such a way to avoid WP:OR nonetheless. It's basic GIS data that's obvious to some people and publicly available, although other misleading stuff exists. — Smuckola (talk) 02:49, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Short" ton?[edit]

Never encountered the term "short ton" before. There is the ton (2,000 pounds), and the long ton (2,240 pounds). Using the term "short ton" instead of just "ton" interrupts the flow of the article and makes it awkward to read.

It's like reading an article about currency that calls a nickel a "half dime" every time it occurs.

Also, there should be some mention of how the castle was constructed -- the article says essentially nothing about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM

Except a half dime is an actual coin that needs to be distinguished from a nickle (one is sliver, the other is not), so using correct terms is important. - Darkstar949 (talk) 16:41, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]